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Conservative ideologues defend capitalism as the system that preserves culture, traditional values, the family, and community. Marxists would respond that capitalism has done more to undermine such things than any other system in history, given its wars, colonizations, and forced migrations, its enclosures, evictions, poverty wages, child labor, homelessness, underemployment, crime, and drug infestation.” pg 124
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page 118 “State socialism, “the system that did not work,” provided everyone with some measure of security. Free-market capitalism, “the system that works,” brought a free-falling economy, financial plunder, deteriorating social conditions, and mass suffering.”
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page 36 “Today, no one in U.S. policy circles worries about the politico-economic oppression suffered in dozens of right-wing client states. Their professed desire to bring Western political democracy to nations that have had revolutions rarely extends to free-market autocracies.”
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quote below about how fascists in italy learned from us conservatives how to achieve fascism’s class goals while remaining within the liberal semi-democratic framework
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page 85 “But what of the democratic rights that these peoples were denied? In fact, with the exception of Czechoslovakia, these countries had known little political democracy in the days before communism. Russia was a czarist autocracy, Poland a rightist dictatorship with concentration camps of its own, Albania an Italian fascist protectorate as early as 1927, Cuba a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship. Lithuania, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria were outright fascist regimes allied with Nazi Germany in World War II.”
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the communist societies had great flaws. from poor work incentives and heavy bureaucracy and corruption aswell as a lack of democratic rights. however there was also genuine improvements onto the material conditions of the people in the societies. with living wages, available quality healthcare, housing, food and even improvements of women’s rights. this all took place with constant capitalist encirclement and threats. we tend to focus on the repressive elements and failings of communist countries a lot more then the material improvements of the societies under communism. and we tend to focus on those failings without critically analyzing the capitalist sabotage and threats waged against communist countries. we focus on these things and don’t critically analyze these countries by design.
